Reviews

Photo: Eiko Otake and Wen Hui

When Bodies Remember – Eiko Otake and Wen Hui’s Film “No Rule is Our Rule “

Ziying Cui

As Wen Hui and Eiko note, “Our body memorizes.”

Photo: BRITT/ Jay Newman

A Spoon Becomes a World of Crip* Possibilities

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Disability, queerness, and belonging in ‘the spoon’ of Kinetic Light’s DESCENT.

Photo: Maria Baranova

Everything is HEBEL

Emilee Lord

A carefully constructed choreographic layering that is complex while still allowing for air, time, and this ceaseless quiet.

Photo: Haven & Hazard

Football, roses, and don’t forget the cake

Charly Santagado

A mixed bill bringing together a distinct blend of nostalgia, rigor, and unadulterated fun for all ages.

Photo: Todd Rosenberg

Al Ritmo de la Clave

Amy Schofield

Their uniquely Cuban aesthetic corporeally, sonically, and thematically foregrounds Cuban cultural pride.

Artwork: Stacey "BLACKSTAR" Robinson

Breaking Through to the Unseen

Amy Schofield

Breakdance cyphers activate possibilities of knowledge and ways of being.

Photo: Pablo Meninato

Becoming Animals

Madeline Shuron

Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.

Photo: Linda Johnson

you are nothing but your life

desire amaiya

questions of connection, reflection, punishment in a purgatory like space.

Photo: Serge Daniel Kabore

The Dust Settles, and It’s Unsettling

Darcy Grabenstein

Finding hope in the aftermath of a massacre.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Searching For Duende in Philadelphia Ballet’s “Carmen”

Courtney Henry

The nuanced percussion raised the stakes from previous versions of Carmen, yet execution fell short.